| rear wheel and sprocket removal: a new approach?
Been chatting to a colleague about the problem of rear wheel and sprocket removal for those of us without access to a windy gun!
Tales of long breaker bars with a scaffold tube stuck on the end, and a second operator desperately applying the (notoriously weak!) back brake sound a bit fraught to me.
My colleague suggested (and I don't see why he shouldn't be right), that it would be quite easy to have a "immersion heater tool"-type spanner laser-cut out of, say, 10mm plate. Either it could end in a size suitable for fitting a scaffold tube over, or, (better, I think), have a shortish "arm" which could be "flogged" around with a lump hammer. This would offer the "shock" to the nut which enables a windy gun to remove them so easily.
I reckon that by marking the nut before removal with yellow paint, it could be tightened in a similar fashion.
Any comments, anyone? |